The Master of Science in Food Security and Climate Change (MS FSCC) is a joint degree developed under the European Commission’s ERASMUS + Capacity Building for Higher Education funding from 2016-2019. The main goal of the program it brings together 8 leading Asian higher education institutions in agriculture and life sciences from the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, and Taiwan to offer an international graduate degree program on the topic of Food Security and Climate Change. For each MS FSCC student will be enrolled in two universities, be supervised jointly by professors from these universities, and have a joint thesis defence. The students will also attend summer schools. The following member universities of the Southeast Asian University Consortium for Graduate Education in Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC); these are Kasetsart University (KU) in Thailand, University Putra Malaysia (UPM) in Malaysia, the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) in the Philippines, Institut Pertanian Bogor (IPB) and Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), in Indonesia. Other UC members such as Universitas Brawijaya (UB) in Malang, Indonesia, Tokyo University of Agriculture (Tokyo-NODAI), National Taiwan University (NTU), the University of British Columbia (UC) in Canada and the University of Gottingen (UGOE)in Germany.
The project has offered a double degree program with the development of the joint curriculum since 2017 and three batches of students successfully participating until 2019. These students have successfully participated in exchanges programs in Southeast Asia and Germany in summer schools and joint research.